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- Iranian cyberwar chief assassinated
- 10/02 Links Pt2: Biden's Profound Ignorance, Arafat's Bolonium tests 'delayed', Clinton on Rowhani
- Stop media demonization of Israel (petition)
- Saudi paper: Never any Jews in Jerusalem; Israel using Zionism to take over world
- Iran resumes support to Hamas; Hamas says US gave EU green light to talk to it
- 10/02 Links Part 1: Reactions to Netanyahu's UN Speech, What Abbas Missed in His UN Speech
- UN awards Iran key post - on disarmament committee
- NYT upset at Bibi - but they won't say the real reason why
- BDS explained (ElderToons)
| Iranian cyberwar chief assassinated Posted: 02 Oct 2013 05:00 PM PDT Because firewalls cannot stop bullets.... It wasn't the Mossad. It was Twitter! (h/t Elder Of Lobby)           |
| 10/02 Links Pt2: Biden's Profound Ignorance, Arafat's Bolonium tests 'delayed', Clinton on Rowhani Posted: 02 Oct 2013 03:00 PM PDT From Ian: Lapid Denounces Anti-Semitic Incidents in Hungary Speaking during a conference on European anti-Semitism in the Hungarian parliament, Lapid said today's politicians must ensure such tragedies did not happen again. Palestinian Propaganda Invades the Arts in Canada Palestinian propaganda has been ramped up a notch, using the prominent Toronto Film Festivals, in a manipulation of the arts to emotionalize its message. The Sixth Annual Toronto Palestine Film Festival (TPFF) opened on Saturday September 28th, on the heels of the renowned Toronto International Film Festival . Although described as "dedicated to bringing Palestinian cinema, live musical performances, cuisine and art to audiences," it is more accurately a propaganda fest that promotes Palestinian victimhood and paints Israel as a criminal. The event is promoted by the Canadian Arab Federation, which has been condemned by the Canadian government for its support of Hamas and Islamic Jihad.CiF Watch prompts correction to false Guardian claim about SodaStream As Guardian reports on fledgling BDS efforts against Israel go, Benedictus's article isn't too bad. However, the strap line falsely claimed that SodaStream's company headquarters was in "the occupied West Bank", when in fact only one of their factories (in Mishor Adumim) is in the disputed territory. The company's corporate headquarters is located in Airport City, adjacent to Ben Gurion Airport and not on the "wrong side" of the green line.Guardian Letters Page Throws Up a Surprise I'm not sure I can remember seeing a newspaper publish a letter so overtly hostile towards and critical of the newspaper itself as one in today's Guardian. It begins with the following sentence:BBC's Marcus promotes 'moderated' Iranian Holocaust denial For some reason, Jonathan Marcus seeks to persuade BBC audiences that Israel should be gratefully giving out "brownie points" to any Iranian official who does a mealy-mouthed makeover on Ahmadinejad's previous performance. The waters of that "wave of euphoria" appear to have turned Mr Marcus' critical and analytic faculties rather soggy.Fisk Losing Touch With Reality No surprise that serial Israel-basher Robert Fisk takes a typically snide and bitter view of Benjamin Netanyahu's speech to the UN. His latest in The Independent includes the following:Bill Clinton on Rowhani: Interesting That Admitting Holocaust Occurred Qualifies Him As Being A Moderate Biden's 'hawkish' speech garners mixed reviews at J Street US Vice President Joe Biden came directly to the J Street conference in Washington, DC, from a one-on-one meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He brought with him a no-nonsense message that emphasized Washington's support for Israel's security and a strong stance against Iran. The message might have been coolly received had it been delivered by someone else, but J Street's largely Democratic supporters welcomed the vice president like a rock star.Biden Criticized for Calling Palestinians 'Least Ideological and Sectarian' Mideast Arabs "In light of all these problems, some people ask us: Why Biden, why, why Obama. Why are you so set on trying to resolve the peace process?" Biden said.Overheard at the 2013 J Street Conference The evening also featured an unannounced appearance by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, who called the two-state solution "essential to U.S. national security."J Street and the Decline of American Power Nonetheless, J Street's moment in the sun is the result of fortuitous political circumstances, rather than any ingenious strategy on its part. As the Washington Free Beacon's Adam Kredo reported last week, the group has spent $100,000 reaching out to lawmakers to look kindly upon both Iranian diplomatic entreaties and Palestinian efforts to secure unilateral recognition—a stance that directly contradicts the administration's commitment to direct talks.J Street Lobbied Congress, But Did They Listen? But with the government shutdown in effect, and members of Congress shuffling in and out of the chamber trying to reach a solution, meetings were being cancelled and moved, staged and re-staged. The schedule was completely in flux. While still going out of their way to make time for J Street's activists, there was a sense that the priorities of those on the Hill might just be elsewhere.Experts late with test results in Arafat death case Informed Palestinian sources told the newspaper that there was fear among the Palestinians that the delay was the result of an "official decision" to procrastinate. Forensic investigators from the three countries took samples from Arafat's body last November for tests to determine whether he had been poisoned by polonium – a toxic, radioactive element found on some of his personal belongings.Sheikh Salah's ready-made solution Islamic Movement head Sheikh Raed Salah and his friends are in a bind. Radical Islamists like them have become pariahs in Arab nations and around the world as a result of their peers' acts of terror against innocent civilians.Palestinian Supreme Fatwa Council - men and women should only talk on social network sites if they are seeking marriage. "The main purpose of the conversation should be marriage through legal ways, and it shouldn't have any other goals which could mark a violation of Sharia law. Any personal details, which could arouse lust, must not be addressed during the conversation."The Church of Sweden used as a weapon against Israel Today the Church of Sweden is a big critic of Israel and high-ranking bishops refer to the Israeli presence in the West Bank as a "sin" and an "abomination against God." On their website the Church of Sweden recommends that their congregations "suspend investment, impose sanctions and boycott companies and products from the Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian Territories."Dutch PM to Peres: 'We Never Even Considered Yesha Boycott' Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, has said in a joint press conference with Shimon Peres, that the Netherlands is opposed to boycotting goods from Israel and that the issue had not even been considered within the country.Cal State University-Northridge Says Anti-Israel Prof Klein Does Not Have Permission to Use School Servers to Advance Boycott After an intense letter-writing campaign and in-person pleas by AMCHA Initiative, a national organization fighting anti-Semitism on college campuses, California State University's interim general counsel, Andrew Jones, has affirmed that CSU-Northridge mathematics professor David Klein has not been granted express permission to use school email and web hosting to support a boycott of Israel.New morphing glass can be dimmed, frosted or see-through As you enter the elevator at the Aish HaTorah yeshiva in the Old City of Jerusalem, you'd never suspect that you were about to experience the future of glass technology. But as the car rises from the first to the fifth and final floor, its walls gradually transform, from what seemed at first to be solid and opaque to entirely transparent.Israeli Holocaust historian Israel Gutman dies Israel Gutman, who survived the Nazi atrocities of World War II and dedicated his life to researching the Holocaust, has died. He was 90.      |
| Stop media demonization of Israel (petition) Posted: 02 Oct 2013 02:00 PM PDT From Honest Reporting: Recent cases of anti-Israel bias have crossed the line. Demonization of Israel is recognized as a form of anti-Semitism in both the U.S. State Department and European Union Working Definitions of Anti-Semitism.Sign the petition here.      |
| Saudi paper: Never any Jews in Jerusalem; Israel using Zionism to take over world Posted: 02 Oct 2013 12:30 PM PDT Al Bilad, one of Saudi Arabia's oldest newspapers, has an article by Dr. Ghazi Hussein, former PLO envoy to Austria. Jerusalem is one of the most important holy places that has been associated with the Arabs, Muslims and Christians throughout the ages. Jerusalem is the symbol of the nationalism and holy to Christianity and Islam, the first Qiblah [direction of Muslim prayer] and Islam's third holiest site and the City of Flowers and the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the birthplace of Jesus Christ and the essence of the question of Palestine Arab-Zionist conflict.Don't forget - Saudis are "moderate." Ghazi Hussein is also a Holocaust-denier, which makes him well-suited to be an honored writer for the Arabic press. I can confidently predict that no one in the Arabic-speaking world - no professors of history at a single Arab university - will write a response to this article pointing out its absurd lies.      |
| Iran resumes support to Hamas; Hamas says US gave EU green light to talk to it Posted: 02 Oct 2013 10:30 AM PDT Palestine Today reports that after a freeze of some months, Iran has resumed supporting Hamas. The two parties were at odds over Hamas' support of the rebels in Syria. The rapprochement came after a senior Hamas official visited Tehran recently. Hamas spokesman Ahmad Yusuf admitted Iranian support - presumably monetary and military - is not at the levels it reached previously. He stressed that both Iran and Hamas understand each others' positions on Syria but they have a common enemy in Israel. When asked whether Hamas had contacts with the U.S. administration, Yusuf replied: "There had been both formal and informal communications previously, but those close to U.S. President Barack Obama are wary of these contacts, in case the U.S. administration would get in trouble with Congress or with Israel....[However,] the Americans gave the green light for the Europeans to open talks with us. Europeans are more aggressive in dealing with us."      |
| 10/02 Links Part 1: Reactions to Netanyahu's UN Speech, What Abbas Missed in His UN Speech Posted: 02 Oct 2013 09:00 AM PDT From Ian: Khaled Abu Toameh: What Abbas Missed in His UN Speech Abbas does not seem to have time to talk about the suffering of his people at the hands of Arab governments and terror groups.The speech the world needed to hear It was not the speech the world wanted to hear, but it was the speech it needed to hear. Netanyahu was not looking to make friends in his speech Tuesday. He was looking to give the world the truth -- and the truth sometimes hurts. Clearly, the world would rather live in the Iranian bubble, which Netanyahu came to burst Tuesday.Iran Learns the Language of the West To be sure, Rouhani's performance at the United Nations was stellar, although he did not have much to live up to. Former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad stood on the podium at the General Assembly denying the Holocaust and promoting 9/11 conspiracy theories before claiming that he'd felt "bathed in light" during his speech. Certainly not conducive to winning any PR points.White House 'Understand's Israeli Skepticism on Iran' Following the speech made by Binyamin Netanyahu to the United Nations General Assembly, White House Spokesman Jay Carney has said in a press briefing, that the US administration understands Israeli fears as it attempts a rapprochement with the Islamic regime.J Street, Israeli Left blast Netanyahu speech Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu faced criticism for his UN General Assembly address Tuesday from Labor and Meretz MKs in Israel and from the pro- Israel, pro-peace lobby J Street in Washington.Israel's Deputy Defense Minister: Jewish State Will Know if Rouhani is Serious Within 'Weeks' (INTERVIEW) Israel's Deputy Defense Minister, Danny Danon, said that it won't take Israel long to determine whether Western talks with Iranian President Rouhani will yield a breakthrough in the international standoff over Iran's nuclear program. His remarks were made in an interview with The Algemeiner hours after Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu addressed the United Nations General Assembly.Ya'alon: Diplomacy with Iran based on 'wishful thinking' Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon on Wednesday acknowledged there were differences between Israel and the US on Iran, and expressed concerns over Western attempts to engage in diplomacy with Tehran, warning against "wishful thinking" in the face of duplicitous Iranian "sweet talk."'If diplomacy with Iran won't work, we'll do the job alone,' says deputy FM Deputy Foreign Minister Ze'ev Elkin said Tuesday that Israel believes the Iranian nuclear dispute could be solved diplomatically, but asserted Jerusalem would not hesitate to strike if it felt the international community's efforts to curb the regime's reach for an atomic bomb failed to deliver results.Steinitz: Iran wants to both keep nuclear program and salvage its economy International Relations Minister says Israel is not opposed to a diplomatic solution, but it must follow the Libyan track, rather than the North Korean.JPost Editorial: Bibi and Obama dovetail – for now Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and US President Barack Obama are no strangers to dissent. And the remarkable developments in recent days in US-Iranian relations that included a phone call by Obama to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani – the first leader-to-leader contact between the United States and Iran in 34 years – seemed to provide the fodder for yet another feud.Rouhani: We'll Hold Referendum on US Relations Iranian president Hassan Rouhani announced Wednesday that he intends to hold a referendum among Iranians, to gauge the public's attitude on the thawing of relations with the US.Iran Dismisses as 'Baseless' Reports Israel Captured Revolutionary Guard Corps Spy Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Marziyeh Afkham on Tuesday categorically denied Tel Aviv's claims about Iran's involvement in alleged spying activities in Israel, according to state news agency Fars.The Security Council Resolution on Syria: Farce and Fait Accompli The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has come up with a resolution on Syria's chemical weapons, but it's hard to see what the point is.McCain Hires Discredited Syria Advocate That's not the case for Elisabeth O'Bagy, hired last week by U.S. Sen. John McCain as a legislative assistant. O'Bagy, 26, became an influential analyst on policy toward Syria after publishing a column in the Wall Street Journal that advocated arming Syrian rebels fighting dictator Bashar al-Assad despite concerns about radical jihadists in their ranks.Turkish Parliament Introduces Motion to Engage Syria Militarily The motion asked for authorization to send troops to, or to engage in a military operation in, Syria, citing the use of chemical weapons by the regime of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad as an immediate threat to the security of Turkey. The motion referred explicitly to an attack Aug. 21 in the suburbs of Damascus by regime forces that killed more than 1,000 Syrian civilians. Al-Qaeda Battles for Control on Israel's BorderSinai Terrorists: Egyptian Army is 'the Enemy of Allah' In the video, the group calls the Egyptian army "The Camp David Army", a reference to the peace agreement between Egypt and Israel, adding that the army "has not fired one shot at the Zionist enemy for forty years, yet in one day killed thousands of Muslims in Cairo."Egyptian Terrorist Sympathizer To Receive Human Rights Award? Seif was nominated largely because of her Twitter account, which includes 220,000 followers. She uses this, and other social media platforms, to express her "tweets of terror" and her hatred for Israel.Morsi Supporters Demonstrate in Tahrir Square Anti-military protesters demonstrated in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Tuesday, for the first time since Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi was removed from office in July following mass protests against his leadership.Jordan Arrests 3 for Supporting Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood Three Jordanian men have been arrested for carrying posters supporting Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood and ousted Islamist president Mohammed Morsi, a judicial official told AFP on Tuesday.      |
| UN awards Iran key post - on disarmament committee Posted: 02 Oct 2013 07:00 AM PDT In July: Iran is campaigning for a key position on a U.N. General Assembly committee that deals with disarmament and international security amid strong criticism from Israel and others who accuse Tehran of seeking to develop nuclear weapons.The UN approved it - an hour after Netanyahu's speech. From IRNA: The Islamic Republic of Iran has been elected as rapporteur of the UN First Committee on Disarmament and International Security for the 68th annual meeting.It is one thing to know that the UN is a joke, but to see it confirmed day after day after day is still remarkable. (h/t Arsen/Arnold)      |
| NYT upset at Bibi - but they won't say the real reason why Posted: 02 Oct 2013 05:00 AM PDT  The New York Times is not happy with Bibi:Mr. Netanyahu has legitimate reasons to be wary of any Iranian overtures, as do the United States and the four other major powers involved in negotiations over Iran's nuclear program. But it could be disastrous if Mr. Netanyahu and his supporters in Congress were so blinded by distrust of Iran that they exaggerate the threat, block President Obama from taking advantage of new diplomatic openings and sabotage the best chance to establish a new relationship since the 1979 Iranian revolution sent American-Iranian relations into the deep freeze.Even though the Times admits that pretty much every fact Netanyahu brought up is accurate! Mr. Rouhani and the Iranian foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, have insisted repeatedly that Iran wants only to develop nuclear energy and that obtaining a nuclear weapon would harm the country's security.Actually, the main thrust of Bibi's speech was to not to start a war, but a warning against loosening sanctions in exchange for smiles and empty promises: I have argued for many years, including on this podium, that the only way to peacefully prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons is to combine tough sanctions with a credible military threat. And that policy is today bearing fruit. Thanks to the effort of many countries, many represented here, and under the leadership of the United States, tough sanctions have taken a big bite out of Iran's economy. Oil revenues have fallen. The currency has plummeted. Banks are hard pressed to transfer money.The NYT cannot find any holes in Netanyahu's logic. It cannot find any concrete concession that Rouhani is offering. Yet, against all known facts, it still insists that Rouhani is the moderate who must be given concessions to, and Bibi is the warmonger. There is nothing wrong with speaking to and negotiating with Iran, but there is a great deal wrong with loosening sanctions in response to a smile. So if the Times cannot find anything actually wrong with Bibi's words, why are they so upset at him? The reason seems to be because he called them out for doing the exact same thing with North Korea: Like Iran, North Korea also said its nuclear program was for peaceful purposes. Like Iran, North Korea also offered meaningless concessions and empty promises in return for sanctions relief. In 2005, North Korea agreed to a deal that was celebrated the world over by many well-meaning people. Here is what the New York Times editorial had to say about it: "For years now, foreign policy insiders have pointed to North Korea as the ultimate nightmare... a closed, hostile and paranoid dictatorship with an aggressive nuclear weapons program.That's the real reason the "Paper of Record" is so miffed - because Bibi mentioned its record of believing dictators on the threshold of nuclear weapons capability. The truth hurts, so the NYT - instead of admitting its very real role in pressuring Washington to believe North Korea's empty promises - is lashing out at the person who pointed it out. This is behavior one would expect from a teenager who was caught in a lie, not from a newspaper whose entire reputation is dependent on accuracy. The NYT's choosing to ignore that part of Bibi's speech explains a great deal about its nonsensical editorial that is at odds with facts.      |
| Posted: 02 Oct 2013 02:00 AM PDT   (This is not a real conversation; it is however a real representation of how not only BDSers but also how EU diplomats of the world view things.)      |
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